Adobe Demonstrates Stunning Photo Deblurring Technology

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Looks nice but nothing new. If you google for debluring you will come up with loads of samples for that and some working programs to try out. Most dating good few years back. Nice non the less.
 
[citation][nom]opmopadop[/nom]Erm, GIMP has a 'unsharpen' mask that may be "Half as good"... GIMP is free too![/citation]
Buddy, u are little out of the loop here. Read it again, it will come to u...
 
As long as the degradation is caused to motion blur this approach can help. It won't help if your image is out of focus... and if the motion includes rotation (twisting the camera in your hand as opposed to just shifting it right or left) it'll cause perspective change and scaling issues which it also won't be able to cope with (well, it could potentially fix scaling error but I doubt they're doing it).
 
Wow this would be so awesome. I have a few pictures of people I never see anymore that I would love to have not blurred to crap because of my *awesome* cell phone picture taking skills. Hahah
 
It's a demo! I wonder how much they have practice to make it look easy.
If they have done a live demo where one of the audience takes a blurry pic with their own camera and they show us CS6 can deblurr it, then I'll believe it.

 
I can see where it would be useful if one absolutely positively wanted a cleaned up copy of a blurred image. I'm not sure it would make any difference for professional photographers. The pro's take a lot of multiple shots so it may not matter to them.
 
Don't be surprised if it is coming in CS 6 though. Adobe is on top for a reason. Most companies that have a stranglehold on there market do it one of two ways, dirty tactics or superior innovation. Intel thinks far into the future, who's to say Adobe, a software Developer who faces little real competition in the market place, doesn't have many things lined up but plans to slowly release them over the course of many versions? That's what I'd do at least, no reason to drop all your R&D in one major version upgrade and then just twiddle your thumbs until the software engineers can come up with something else. It's all about milking your product to the max you can afford before pushing things once more.
 
Am I the only one spotting the annoying artifacts scattered evenly all around the image?
It's bad enough to bug me even at this pathetic resolution. It's hard to tell whether they were introduced in the original sample or through the filter.
 
[citation][nom]jamie_1318[/nom]Am I the only one spotting the annoying artifacts scattered evenly all around the image? It's bad enough to bug me even at this pathetic resolution. It's hard to tell whether they were introduced in the original sample or through the filter.[/citation]

Artifacts may be from image reduction for the article, which isn't Adobe's fault.
 
The art of photography has lost another chunk, Not everyone is a "photographer" or has a clue how to use a camera......... Technology is ruining a profession, then again, there is not a filter that can re compose a photo if you have no idea how to compose a photo...... yet
 
I've actually dinked around with this sort of thing before. There's a lot you can do with a well thought out algorithm, but this seems to have drawn back details that couldn't have realistically been had from the source material. I call marketing bullshit on this one.
 
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